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Wildfires in Madagascar

594 fires over 2,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 2,266,142 hectares burned across 82 districts.

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

These figures leave out 9 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Madagascar, at this point in the year: 1,868,006 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 3,428,673.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20254,567,773 ha

Worst year2016 6,383,385 ha

With a page here594 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	7,927	1,886,941	GWIS
2025	10,094	2,644,132	GWIS
2024	14,519	3,851,528	GWIS
2023	16,197	4,089,579	GWIS
2022	16,243	4,093,323	GWIS
2021	18,702	4,464,753	GWIS
2020	21,210	5,526,334	GWIS
2019	17,641	4,524,308	GWIS
2018	24,663	5,372,383	GWIS
2017	18,397	4,728,002	GWIS
2016	24,712	6,383,385	GWIS
2015	19,202	5,009,744	GWIS
2014	19,168	4,875,394	GWIS
2013	23,208	6,243,815	GWIS
2012	19,869	4,972,034	GWIS

National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.

Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

	Jan	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026		12k	11k	15k	89k	77k	114k			317,025	Belo Sur Tsiribihina 26,187 ha
2025	2k				11k	82k	144k	90k	39k	368,382	Marovoay 37,565 ha
2024				5k	9k	46k	50k	44k	44k	197,717	Soalala 19,838 ha
2023			2k	3k	2k	65k	40k	23k	7k	142,250	Belo Sur Tsiribihina 37,443 ha
2022			2k			64k	51k	24k	5k	146,760	Soalala 15,864 ha
2021			5k		8k	29k	59k	25k	12k	136,940	Marovoay 15,131 ha
2020		4k		6k	4k	58k	57k	76k	2k	207,599	Toliary-II 20,892 ha
2019				4k	6k	6k	111k	3k	2k	132,880	Toliary-II 14,445 ha
2018		2k	2k		6k	94k	73k			177,703	Belo Sur Tsiribihina 13,063 ha
2017			3k	4k	3k	43k	123k	41k	5k	220,759	Toliary-II 23,015 ha
2016		2k			26k	38k	130k	16k	6k	218,127	Marovoay 14,296 ha